Kidney Scan for Liam

This past Wednesday Liam had to go back to the Children's Hospital in D.C. for a DMSA scan of his kidneys. We had to be there at 7:30 a.m. which meant we had to leave home by 6:30. Poor Liam was already hungry but couldn't eat or drink anything from 1 a.m. on. The plan was to get there at 7:30, inject the dye at 8, scan at 10 and be done by 11:00. Sounded pretty routine. Of course we got there on time to find that there is a world wide shortage of the dye he needed and they wouldn't have any until 11. So we walked around and went to the main lobby since we had 3 and a half hours to kill, with no food mind you.

We walked up and down the stairs.....




Colored some pictures and then tried to eat them.......






After a while a group of about 20 kids that were patients there came to watch a movie. They were so cute! I heard one adult announce that it was snack time and when I looked up she was pulling out a thing of crackers. I started to put all of our things away as fast as I could, but Liam spotted the crackers and started to reach his little hand out and say "dis dis dis" as fast and as loud as he could. It broke my heart. Once I got him strapped we walked some more. Finally it was 11 and the dye was in. They had to poke his little hand to inject the dye. Liam was not happy about this as I am sure his last hospitalization was still fresh on his mind. One of the nurses was so cute, she gave him a talking cookie monster and he loved it. We had another hour and 15min. to kill after that.




By 11:45 Liam gave in and just fell asleep.



At 12:15 they gave him the stuff that puts him to sleep. About 15 min. later he was awake but was fighting sleep. I laid him on the table and waited with my head next to his, or else he would cry, until he fell asleep.




They finished one scan and then had to do another since one of his Kidneys is in his pelvis. He woke up the last min. and 40 seconds. Thank goodness they called it good. We went to recovery and he spotted my diaper bag. He was going crazy trying to get to it, because he knew there was food in it. I gave him his cup with 8 oz. of water in it and he sucked it dry in 2 seconds! He did good with it so they let us go. By then it was 3p.m. As soon as I put him in his car seat I gave him a roll and gold fish crackers. He ate everything by the time I made it to pick up Ave and Linc, poor guy. Thank you Kim for taking them, you are the best and I am going to miss you desperately.





We go in to see his Urologist on the 14th for the results. Keep your fingers crossed that his kidneys are ok.